The double-edged sword. Unions can add a bureaucratic layer that slows down innovation and growth and thereby workers’ well-being in our country’s current economic environment, I also have a great respect for the good that unions and the labor movement as a whole have brought to our civilization over the years.
1. The weekend. 2. The Fair Labor Standards Act which eliminated child-labor. 3. Sick days. 4. Worker safety laws.
Thanks Labor Movement!
I firmly believe in workers’ right to organize. I also believe that they need to realize that, just like management, they need to focus on the customer. And only then will they have the resources to create equity and good working conditions.
Here’s the second in the series of three most awesome 1-minute films directed by Rick Mereki and brilliantly edited and shot by Tim White, the films were recorded over the course of 44 days and 38,000 miles of travel. Watching these great shorts made us want to immediately book flights to untraveled spots in the world for us! This one is entited, “EAT”!
We’re going to feature 3 short films on The Travel Skinny over the next few days directed by Rick Mereki and brilliantly edited and shot by Tim White, the films were recorded over the course of 44 days and 38,000 miles of travel. Watching these great shorts made us want to immediately book flights to untraveled spots in the world for us! This first one is entited, “MOVE”!
Fred Van Ness, New York Herald, September 5, 1918, bemoaning the “greed that has developed in recent years”:
Another day will dawn for baseball when the war is over and it will be a day that will mark the end of exorbitant salaries and will once more place the sport above the financial features of the game. …
Stars in the olden days didn’t make as much in a season as the players on the present world series clubs will make in a week, and they played real baseball with a real spirit.
All those years I had heard the jokes about Amy Winehouse, but never heard her sing….until Alison turned me on to her after she died…Sweet Jesus, what a voice and sensibility! So sad that she’s done, but even sadder that the only thing the popular media could bring themselves to write was scandalous crap, while ignoring all the awesomeness!
OK we’ll just say it, one of the most beautiful places in the world. Water so blue that you’ll never look at blue quite the same again. The rim drive and the boat ride will leave you speechless….get the skinny from the YourLume adventure travel blog!
